Acting · Horsforth, Yorkshire, England, UK · Born November 11, 1911
Reginald Lawrence Knowles (11 November 1911 – 23 December 1995) was an English film actor who renamed himself Patric Knowles, a name which reflects his Irish descent. He appeared in films of the 1930s through the 1970s. He made his film debut in 1933, and played either first or second film leads throughout his career. In his first American film, Give Me Your Heart (1936), released in Great Britain as Sweet Aloes, Knowles was cast as a titled Englishman of means. While making The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) at Lone Pine, California, he befriended Errol Flynn, whose acquaintance he had made when both were under contract to Warner Bros. in England. Since that film, in which Knowles played the part of Capt. Perry Vickers, the brother of Flynn's Maj. Geoffrey Vickers, he was cast more frequently as straitlaced characters alongside Flynn's flamboyant ones, notably as Will Scarlet in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Both actors starred as well in Four's A Crowd, also in 1938. More than two decades after Flynn's death, biographer Charles Higham sullied Flynn's memory by accusing him of having been a fascist sympathizer and Nazi spy. Knowles, who had served in World War II as a flying instructor in the RCAF, came to Flynn's defense, writing Rebuttal for a Friend as an epilogue to Tony Thomas' Errol Flynn: The Spy Who Never Was (Citadel Press, 1990) ISBN 080651180X. Knowles was a freelance film actor from 1939 until his last film appearance in 1973. In the 1940s, he was known for playing protagonists in a number of horror films, including The Wolf Man (1941) and Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (1943). Knowles was also cast as comic foils in a number of comedies such as Abbott and Costello's Who Done It? (1942) and Hit The Ice (1943). He also appeared opposite Jack Kelly in a 1957 episode of the television series Maverick called "The Wrecker", which was based on a Robert Louis Stevenson adventure and co-starred James Garner. Knowles was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame and wrote a novel called Even Steven (Vantage Press, 1960) ASIN B0006RMC2G. He was cremated. His ashes were either given to a friend or family. Description above from the Wikipedia article Patric Knowles, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
MovieMonster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
1999
as Self (archive footage)
MovieArnold
1973
as Douglas Whitehead
MovieTerror in the Wax Museum
1973
as Mr. Southcott
MovieThe Man
1972
as South African Consul
Getting Together
1971
MovieChisum
1970
as Henry Tunstall
MovieThe D.A.: Murder One
1969
as Charles Lloyd
MovieIn Enemy Country
1968
as General Lloyd-Griffis
MovieThe Devil's Brigade
1968
as Adm. Lord Mountbatten
TVGarrison's Gorillas
1967
MovieThe Way West
1967
as Captain Grant
TVJericho
1966
TVFamily Affair
1966
MovieThe Wolfman
1966
as Frank Andrews
TVMona McCluskey
1965
as Trevor Blake
TVMickey
1964
MovieSix Gun Law
1962
TVThe Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960
as Simon Lambert
TVHawaiian Eye
1959
TVTightrope
1959
MovieAuntie Mame
1958
as Lindsay Woolsey
MovieFrom the Earth to the Moon
1958
as Josef Cartier
TV77 Sunset Strip
1958
TVPeter Gunn
1958
TVMaverick
1957
TVHave Gun, Will Travel
1957
MovieBand of Angels
1957
as Charles de Marigny
TVTales of the 77th Bengal Lancers
1956
TVMatinee Theater
1955
MovieNo Man's Woman
1955
as Wayne Vincent
TVThe 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
TVGunsmoke
1955
as MacIntosh
TVThe Millionaire
1955
as Martin Scott
MovieThe Thief
1955
as Philippe Voyson
MovieKhyber Patrol
1954
as George Kennely
TVThe Whistler
1954
MovieWorld for Ransom
1954
as Julian March
TVThe United States Steel Hour
1953
as Richard Voyson
MovieFlame of Calcutta
1953
as Capt. Keith Lambert
TVRevlon Mirror Theatre
1953
MovieJamaica Run
1953
as William Montague
TVGeneral Electric Theater
1953
as Longridge
MovieTarzan's Savage Fury
1952
as Edwards
MovieMutiny
1952
as Capt. Ben Waldridge
TVSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Paul Maynard
MovieQuebec
1951
as Charles Douglas
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Corey Hill
MovieThree Came Home
1950
as Harry Keith
TVRobert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Self - Guest Host
TVLights Out
1949
MovieThe Big Steal
1949
as Jim Fiske
TVStudio One
1948
as Martin Helm
MovieIsn't It Romantic?
1948
as Richard Brannon
MovieDream Girl
1948
as Jim Lucas
MovieVariety Girl
1947
as Patric Knowles
MovieIvy
1947
as Dr. Roger Gretorex
MovieMonsieur Beaucaire
1946
as Duc le Chandre
MovieOf Human Bondage
1946
as Harry Griffiths
MovieThe Bride Wore Boots
1946
as Lance Gale
MovieO.S.S.
1946
as Cmdr. Brady
MovieMasquerade in Mexico
1945
as Thomas Grant
MovieKitty
1945
as Brett Harwood Earl of Carstairs
MovieThis Is the Life
1944
as Hilary Jarret
MoviePardon My Rhythm
1944
as Anthony "Tony" Page
MovieChip Off the Old Block
1944
as Commander Judd Corrigan
MovieCrazy House
1943
as Edmund 'Mac' MacLean
MovieAlways a Bridesmaid
1943
as Tony Warren
MovieAll by Myself
1943
as Dr. Bill Perry
MovieHit the Ice
1943
as Dr. William 'Bill' Burns
MovieFrankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
1943
as Dr. Frank Mannering
MovieForever and a Day
1943
as Trimble-Pomfret Son
MovieWho Done It?
1942
as Jim Turner
MovieSin Town
1942
as Wade Crowell
MovieLady in a Jam
1942
as Doctor Enright
MovieThe Mystery of Marie Roget
1942
as Dr. Paul Dupin
MovieThe Strange Case of Doctor Rx
1942
as Private Detective Jerry Church
MovieThe Wolf Man
1941
as Frank Andrews
MovieHow Green Was My Valley
1941
as Ivor Morgan
MovieAnne of Windy Poplars
1940
as Gilbert Blythe
MovieWomen in War
1940
as Lt. Larry Hall
MovieA Bill of Divorcement
1940
as John Storm
MovieMarried and in Love
1940
as Paul Wilding
MovieThe Honeymoon's Over
1939
as Pat Shields
MovieAnother Thin Man
1939
as Dudley Horn
MovieThe Spellbinder
1939
as Tom Dixon
MovieFive Came Back
1939
as Judson Ellis
MovieBeauty for the Asking
1939
as Denny Williams
MovieTorchy Blane in Chinatown
1939
as Capt. Condon
MovieBreakdowns of 1938
1938
as Patterson Buckley (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieHeart of the North
1938
as Jim Montgomery
MovieStorm Over Bengal
1938
as Captain Jeffrey Allison
MovieThe Sisters
1938
as Norman French
MovieFour's a Crowd
1938
as Patterson 'Pat' Buckley
MovieThe Adventures of Robin Hood
1938
as Will Scarlett
MovieThe Patient in Room 18
1938
as Lance O'Leary
MovieExpensive Husbands
1937
as Prince Rupert Heinrich Franz Von Rentzau
MovieIt's Love I'm After
1937
as Henry Grant Jr.
MovieIrish for Luck
1936
as Terry O'Ryan
MovieTwo's Company
1936
as Lord Jerry Wendower
MovieThe Charge of the Light Brigade
1936
as Captain Perry Vickers
MovieGive Me Your Heart
1936
as Robert 'Bob' Melford
Fair Exchange
1936
as Tony Meredith
MovieCrown v. Stevens
1936
as Chris Jensen
MovieThe Brown Wallet
1936
as John Gillespie
MovieThe Guv'nor
1935
as Paul
MovieAbdul the Damned
1935
as Omar - Hilmi's Attache
MovieHonours Easy
1935
as Harry Markham
The Girl in the Crowd
1935
as Tom Burrows
MovieThe Student's Romance
1935
as Max Brandt
